1. Chapter 3: Researching Careers

2. Today’s Career Trend
Spend your 20’s trying to figure out what you don’t like, so you can settle on something you do. Hopefully settling a career you really like in your 30’s.
Today people want a career of “feeling”
They want to do something impactful or work for a company in a position where you are making a difference.
People in the baby boomers generation (born ) didn’t expect to find meaning in their job, people today do.

3. Today’s Career Trend What is driving your future career choice?
Do you feel you need to do something impactful?
What other reasons do you have for the selection of your future (potential) career choice?

4. Researching Career Options
Knowing what you like to do and what you are good at is important when searching for a career.
What kind of careers match your skills and interest?
The U.S. Department of Education has organized careers into 16 different career clusters.
A career cluster is a group of related occupations.

5. Career Clusters- What cluster fits YOU?
Law, Public Safety, Correction, and Security
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Information Technology
Education and Training
Human Services
Business, Management, and Administration
Hospitality and Tourism
Health Science
Arts, Audio/Video Technology, and Communications
Government and Public Administration
Finance
Architecture and Construction
Manufacturing
Marketing, Sales, and Service
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics

6. Activity: Take the Career Interest Survey
Take the Career Interest Inventory Survey to identify which Career Cluster best fits your interests, skills, aptitudes and abilities.
What Career falls into the cluster(s) you scored the highest in?
Can you see yourself pursuing one of these careers?

7. Informal Research
For those of you STILL unsure of your future career choice-- you can do some exploration as you go through your day!
Look around and observe all you can!
List all the careers that you notice in a day… this can ignite some thoughts and inquiries of what your potential future can be.
Interview people and discuss aspects of their career experience.

8. Finding Career Inspiration
You can find career inspiration by observing and interacting with individuals, but you can also find inspiration through characters or people portrayed in visual, print, and digital media.
Think about the movies, TV Shows, magazines, video games and other forms of media you know.
Activity: Identify a character or person you have read about/seen that did a job you think would be really interesting. Explain who they are, where they were from, and what they did.

9. Jim Carrey Inspiration Speech Link

10. Formal Research
Formal research is fully developed, formally presented, and gives you enough information to act on your ideas.
As you find information, you will need to determine how credible, or believable, the sources are.

11. Formal Research Sources that can be used:
Libraries: Career Information Centers
Books: Occupational Outlook Handbook
Magazines, Newspapers, and government reports
Internet Career Resources such as:
Job posting sites-- Indeed, Career Builder, Linked- In, Government Career Sites, etc.

12. Exploratory Interviews
Short, informal talk with someone who works in a career that appeals to you.
Before the interview, think about what you want to know about this career and develop some questions.
How did you start your career?
What education and training did it require?
What do you like about your job?
What do you do during a typical workday?
Don’t be afraid to ask for an interview! Networking is so important these days!!

13. Learning From Experience
The most direct way to learn about a career is to WORK!
You will gain experience, make personal contacts, and put some money in your pocket at the same time.
Temp Work
Short-term employment
Temp companies specialize in placing employees who have the skills companies need for a short time period.
They can last from a few days to indefinitely (permanent).
Temp work doesn’t always offer benefits or job security
It gives an opportunity to develop job skills, learn about different work environments, and develop contacts that may help you find a permanent job.

14. Work Experience Programs- ICE :)
Cooperative Program
Local businesses team up with schools, hiring students to perform jobs that use knowledge and skills taught in their school classes.
Work while you earn high school credit!

15. Following a worker on the job for a few days.
Job Shadowing
Following a worker on the job for a few days.
By watching and listening to the worker, students can learn firsthand what it would be like to work in a particular field.

16. Volunteering, Internships, and Community Work
Volunteer Work
What you do without receiving pay
You can gain valuable experience that can help guide your career decision
Hospitals, parks, and museums are some options
Internship
Short-term job or work project that usually requires some type of commitment
Can be paid of unpaid
Sometimes Internships can be a “foot in the door” to lead to a full time position
Service Learning Program
Connects academic work with community service, allowing students to explore issues discussed in the classroom through personal experiences and community work.

17. Chapter 3.2: What to Research

18. Your Career Exploration
Once you know WHERE to get your information from, its important to decide WHAT information you should actually collect.
Find out what the career is like and if it is right for you!
Some things to consider:
Values
Tasks and Responsibilities
Working with people? Data? Things?
Work environment
Work Hours
Aptitude and abilities
Education and training
Salary and benefits
Career Outlook
International career outlook

19. Values
Do your values match the values that will help you in that career?
What do you really care about?
What do people in that career really care about?
Society?
Being creative?
Justice?
Art?
Money?
Health?
Fame?

20. Tasks and Responsibilities
What will you actually be doing at work?
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?
How are the workdays structured?
Is it easy pace or high stress?
Is the work primarily physical? Or Mental?
What challenges does this job offer?

21. Working with Data, People, Things, or Ideas
In some careers, you will work with all four, but most careers focus on one of the four areas.
Think about the job you are currently employed at for ICE class… which of these do you mainly work with? Is it more than just one area?

22. Work Environment Your physical and social surroundings at work.
Indoors?
Outdoors?
Working mainly alone?
Working mainly with people?
Take a few minutes to visualize your ideal work environment.
Either draw a picture or write a paragraph about what you envision.

23. Working Hours
Would you prefer to start work in the morning? Afternoon? Nights?
7:00am- 3:00pm?
9:00am- 5:00pm?
10:00am- 6:00pm?
1:00pm- 9:00pm
11:00pm- 7:00am?
When are you at your best? Are you a night owl, or a morning person?
Some careers allow flexible scheduling.
Flextime is where workers construct their own work schedules to suit their lives.
Some people work 4 10-hour days and enjoy 3 days weekends.
Some people work very early shifts to allow additional time in the early evening for other activities.
Some people telecommute (work from home)
**Not all jobs have this structured of hours. You may find yourself staying later that expected QUITE OFTEN!

24. Aptitude and Abilities
As you do your research, find out which aptitudes and abilities are needed for each career.
You can then match your natural talents with careers that require those same abilities.

25. Career Preparation
When preparing for a career, you need to know what employers in that career will expect from you as well as what your job will be like.
Career Pathways
Routes that lead to a particular career.
Type of education, training, and work experience that will help you achieve your career goal.
Also consider how the career of your choice might change over the next 10 years (SHIFT HAPPENS!)

26. Education and Training
Associates Degrees (2 years)
Bachelor’s Degree (4 years)
Technical or Business school license or certificates
In your research you will want to know how much time, money, and effort will be needed to attain the necessary education and training for various careers.
Your high school classes hopefully provide you with certain skills or background information that will start you on your career path.

27. Salary and Benefits Benefits
Employment extras, which may include health insurance, paid vacation, and holiday time, and retirement plans.
Additional benefits: regular bonuses, product or service discounts, low- interest loans, or gym memberships.
Personal days and sick days are important to people so they have time they can spend with their family or in moments where an illness arises, they can take the time they need.
Salary
Depends on the field you are going into, your position, and your level of education.
It’s also good to compare salaries/education and training of multiple careers you are interested in.

28. Will there be a higher percentage of people hired in the field?
Career Outlook
Does your potential future career have a positive or negative career outlook?
Will there be a higher percentage of people hired in the field?
Or is it a field that is declining?

29. 25 Most In Demand Jobs

30. 10 Careers No Longer In Demand
Textile Machine Worker
-21.2%
Photo Processor
-19.7%
Furniture Finisher
-0.7%
Radio or TV Announcer
-10%
Floral Designer
-5%
Gaming Cashier
2.0%
Legislator
1.5%
Metal and Plastic Machine Operator
-10.3%
Door to Door Salesperson
-20.3%
Print Binding and Finishing Worker
-10.2%

31. International Career Outlook
With the growth in the global economy and the availability of communication technology, more and more of today’s careers involve working internationally.
Discuss:
Do you know someone who has lived/worked in one or more different countries?
Do you know someone who has traveled to another country for work?
Do you know someone whose career involves working with someone in another country?
Identify some of these international career “job titles”

32. Career Search Activity
Use a reliable source and look up information about a potential career.
Answer in your Guided Notes Packet!